AUSTRALIA. PM TO FIGHT EXECUTION IF CORBY FOUND GUILTY

the Australian Federal Government will "go into overdrive" to stop accused drug smuggler Schapelle Corby being executed should an Indonesian court find her guilty and impose the death penalty. Justice Minister Chris Ellison said everything possible would be done to keep Corby alive, including personal representations by Prime Minister John Howard.
"I am not going to pre-empt any outcomes, but I can tell you what the Government's policy is . . . relating to the death penalty and that is we go into overdrive in making representations to avoid that being carried out," he told Channel 10.
"Recently the Prime Minister John Howard made personal representations to Singapore in relation to the death sentence of an Australian national in that country."
Corby, 27, was on trial for allegedly importing 4.1kg of marijuana into Indonesia in an unlocked bag in October 2004. She faced the death penalty or life in jail if found guilty. Senator Ellison said negotiations with Indonesia were under way to establish a transfer-of-prisoner agreement, which would allow Corby -- if convicted -- to serve her sentence in Australia.